Tuesday Ramblings

The one beautiful day we had fell on Saturday. Unfortunately, I couldn't take advantage of the nice weather because I went to Empowerment Ventures. It was a good opportunity to learn but it's hard to sit in class when you know the temperatures are in the 40s and you won't get to see those again for another month.

Sunday we had family stuff to get done so no Sanctuary work. I've been really bad about keeping the water tank full for the mares and Junior. I'd wanted to get it filled using the hoses on Saturday or Sunday but ran out of time. I think the weatherman was off on his prediction for the weather on Sunday. The temps might have been nice but it was damp, which seeped right into your bones.

Monday rolled around and we had fog. For those that know me, I follow the old wives tale of 90 days from fog is rain/snow. Well, we are pushing in to May now so I doubt that there will be any blizzards headed our way from all the fog we've had over the past two days.

I'd debated on what to do for the horses last night. The weatherman was calling for rain and freezing rain. Normally I'd be pretty quick to blanket a few of the harder keepers. Except the temps weren't supposed to be that cold and all I have are blankets for polar vortex type weather. I dont' have any light weight blankets. If I hadn't had to go to the paying job, I probably would have put blankets on until the sun came out and temps started to rise. But not having that opportunity, I opted to keep blankets off. Well, now the weatherman is saying we are going to have freezing rain until noon. I wonder if anyone wants to take bets to see if we'll actually SEE the sun today. I'm guessing not.

I'd hoped that the sun would come out so that we could get the drylot scrapped. It's getting a little gross in there and the only nice day we had I was at class. So hopefully the sun will come out and we can get the drylot cleaned up before the temperatures plummet back into the single digits at night.

The ponies seemed a little off this morning. I'm not sure if I felt bad and over fed them or what. I'm going to keep a close eye on them today to make sure that this weather isn't causing problems.

I'd had high hopes to have a contest in February to celebrate Valentine's Day but that doesn't seem to be in the cards. Maybe next month. The rest of this week is looking pretty quiet at the Sanctuary so I doubt there will be much to report other than the day-to-day activities.